Jewish Identity and the Function of the Family and Children's Agency

Publication Date: December 1983

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Judith Lang

Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions

Keywords: Jewish Identification; Jewish Organizations; Social Services

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

A response to Charles Miller's "Jewish Identity and Agency Function" in the Fall 1983 edition of this Journal. The author states that she agrees with Miller's questioning of why the field of Jewish Communal Service has failed to respond significantly to the crisis of Jewish identity and survival. She supports the search for the complex reasons for this phenomenon. But she disagrees with his conclusion of creating a "new concept of function" and a new profession with a sense of "ethnic mission."

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, 60: 2.